_Recess of Congress, and adjournment._
The Senate proceeded to consider the resolution from the House of
Representatives for the appointment of a joint committee to wait on the
President of the United States, and notify him of the intended recess,
and concurred therein, and Messrs. ROBINSON and ANDERSON were appointed
a committee on the part of the Senate.
The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES:
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate copies and extracts of documents in
the archives of the Department of State, falling within the
purview of their resolution of the fourth instant, on the
subject of British impressments from American vessels. The
information, though voluminous, might have been enlarged with
more time for research and preparation. In some instances
it might, at the same time, have been abridged, but for the
difficulty of separating the matter extraneous to the immediate
object of the resolution.